Tuesday April 1 See PowerLab Cardiovascular Research on ABC North America |
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 The Barbara Walters television special will feature emerging research and practices that support more people living longer and healthier lives. The University of Minnesota researchers, including Harald Ott, Doris Taylor and Stefan Kren, are working on a bioartificial heart as a theoretical alternative to heart transplants and mechanical left ventricular support.
The researchers have grown new rat hearts from a cadaver by repopulating the vascular structure with new cardiac and endothelium cell over the original acellular structure. After revascularizing the structure, the new hearts were stimulated to generate a small left ventricular pressure. The heart was monitored using a PowerLab data acquisition system.
Live to Be 150 … Can You Do It?
Tuesday April 1
10pm E.T. on ABC
Details about the research were published online earlier this year in Nature Medicine:
Perfusion-deceullularized matrix: using nature’s platform to engineer a bioartificial heart.
Ott et al Nature Medicine: Advanced Online publication: Technical Report
Published online: 13 January 2008; | doi:10.1038/nm1684
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31 March 2008
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